until after the Sharks last game of season, or NHLs last game, KMac would still need to clear RE-Entry waivers, even to be on the roster for 1 day.

After the reg season is over, anyone in the minors can be called up without consequence. There are no cap restrictions. But, even though I think there is an expanded roster allowed, there is a limit to that also.

5-hole goals — controversial. But I have seen probably every goalie that has been shown to let a goal in, allow goals via 5-hole. We see them on a nightly basis on NHL on the Fly. So, IMO, this is something league wide because of the equipment rule change to the inside of the legs pads.

Not to say that either Sharks goalie doesn’t have an issue, they do. Every goalie can fix it really by simply baring down and putting their stick on the ice.

Completely wrong about Semi’s coverage on that 2nd goal. Drew was out of line on that call also.

1st, the fwd there wasn’t in position at all to force the guy wide (wider than the lane he was skating).

You may not have noticed, but Semi was the RIGHT D last night. He actually was coming over from his position to cover that rush off the transition which the forwards weren’t ready for. He basically took 2 strides and forced the shooter to shoot early. Unfortunately, Boucher wasn’t ready for the glove side shot. BB was also not aggressive and was too deep for that shot.

Another thing on that, many of the goals by Boucher were glove side since he’s had to step in.

GP

]]>By: Sidhttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks/2009/03/10/notes-and-quotes-from-the-locker-room-after-that-strange-5-4-sharks-victory-in-ot/comment-page-1/#comment-31088
Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:07:38 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks/?p=1228#comment-31088I don’t think anyone with a brain would say that Christian Ehrhoff doesn’t have a huge upside and great potential…but he’s got to put 2 and 2 together at some point.

There’s more to being a great defenseman than offensive ability. He’s got that. But he is terrible defensively. He doesn’t have great defensive awareness, he’s not very good with his stick, and makes bad decisions.

Luckily for him, all of his weaknesses are correctable, if he puts the time in to improve. His “intangibles” (offensive instinct, aggressiveness, skating ability and other things you can’t teach…) are excellent.

He’s the mirror image of Vlasic. Vlasic is great at everything Christian is bad at, and until this season…was bad at the things Christian is good at. But we’ve already seen great progress in Vlasic to rounding out his game, so we KNOW it’s not impossible.

]]>By: Old Davehttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks/2009/03/10/notes-and-quotes-from-the-locker-room-after-that-strange-5-4-sharks-victory-in-ot/comment-page-1/#comment-31087
Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:24:32 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks/?p=1228#comment-31087Ehrhoff needs to improve his defensive coverage. And the good news is that coverage ‘skills’ are teachable—just a matter of work and discipline. It is not likely, however, that any pro hockey player lacking the considerable skating and offensive skills Ehrhoff brings to our defense can be taught those skills.

Actually Howard Baldwin (former founder of the Whalers and a part owner of the Pens a while back) was the one who originally pushed the NHL for a team in SJ (when talk about an arena in SJ was floating around). The NHL struck a deal between the Gunds (who were partial owners of the North Stars) and Baldwin. The Gunds sold their share of the Stars to HB, and were than granted the expansion franchise in SJ.

]]>By: Tanohttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks/2009/03/10/notes-and-quotes-from-the-locker-room-after-that-strange-5-4-sharks-victory-in-ot/comment-page-1/#comment-31051
Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:50:26 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks/?p=1228#comment-31051TopCat, #10.
I would not go as far as saying that Semenov had an outstanding game last night.
The second goal happened because he was caught flat footed and by the time the instruction to skate fast to catch up with the Wild player went from his brain to his feet, the puck was in the net.

I would definitely say that he has shown a hugh improvement from the beginning of the season, but outstanding seems a bit over the top.